Iran seeks to expand its military cooperation with China
April 28, 2022, 6:27 am

Iran seeks to expand its military cooperation with China

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi (Photo: Twitter)

The Arab News reported, citing the Associated Press, Iranian state media reported that President Ebrahim Raisi expressed Wednesday (Apr 27) his government’s desire for closer cooperation with China in remarks made during a visit by the Chinese defense minister.

According to the report, Raisi told China’s Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe that Tehran sees its ties with Beijing as strategic. Closer cooperation would serve to confront what the Iranian president described as US unilateralism as talks to revive Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers have stalled.

Raisi was quoted as saying: “Confronting unilateralism and creating stability and order is possible through cooperation of independent and like-minded powers."

Wei in turn said improving ties between Iran and China would provide security, “particularly in the current critical and tense situation.”

Iran seeks to expand its military cooperation with China (Photo: Shutterstock)

Wei also met with his Iranian counterpart, Gen. Mohammad Reza Ashtinai, and reportedly invited him to visit China, as well as with other Iranian military officials.

The official IRNA news agency quoted Ashtiani as assailing US military presence in the Middle East and elsewhere, claiming that “wherever the US has had military presence, it has created waves of insecurity, instability, rifts, pessimism, war, destruction and displacement.”

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Wei said his visit was aimed at “improving the strategic defense cooperation” between Iran and China — cooperation that he said would have a “remarkable” impact in defusing unilateralism and fighting terrorism.

Iran and China have increased their military ties in recent years, with their navies visiting each other’s ports and holding joint naval drills in the Indian Ocean.

In 2021, Iran and China signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement that covered a variety of economic activities from oil and mining to promoting industrial activity in Iran, as well as transportation and agricultural collaborations.

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China is a signatory to the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, along with Russia, Britain, France and Germany.

Source: arabnews

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